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The theory of what drives maser variability
A.M. Sobolev S.Yu. Parfyonov
Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
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Microwave I=I0 exp(-τ) Amplification by if τ <0, matter Stimulated amplifies background emission
Emission of instead of obscuring it Radiation maser effect appears due to pumping mechanism reflecting balance between population transfer processes (radiative, collisional and chemical)
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- Changes of background emission (brightening-dimming, shielding, arrival, etc., e.g. OH maser with pulsar on bg Weisberg et al., 2005)
- Changes of the pumping (heating-cooling, compression, dissociation, e.g. propagation of IR radiation from dust which is heated by a source with a rapid variability, Sugiyama et al., 2008)
- Radiative transfer effects (changes of geometry: rotation, expansion, etc., e.g. numerous measurements of proper motions, radiative instabilities, e.g. Scappaticci & Watson, 1995)
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Pumping mechanisms (what masers are sensitive to)
Role of source and sink of energy can play
Collisions with neutral and charged particles Radiative processes (emission and absorption of photons) Chemical processes (chemical reactions, dissociation, ionization, freezing out on the dust)
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Molecule No. of transitions stellar ISM extragal.
OH >5 + + + H2O >10 + + + SiO >6 + + - CH3OH >40 - + | H2CO 1 - + + etc. (NH3, CH, HC5N, HCN, ...)
hydrogen masers cyclotron masers
Maser lines are in λ range from cm to FIR
Strongest masers are in cm range
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Stellar envelopes: periodic changes and flares
- Periodic heating of dust by variable IR emission of the star - Shock waves driven by stellar pulsation - Density variations due to variability of mass loss
A.M.S. Richards (2012)
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H2O maser in RS Vir
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M.D. Gray et al. (2009)
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Interstellar masers
Edges of HII regions (hypercompact, compact, SNR) Outflows (jets - wide angle, shocked clumps) Accretion structures (disks, rings, etc.)
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Monotonic changes
Flares
Periodic changes
Velocity drifts
CH3OH:HartRAO H2O:Pushchino
H2O:Medicina
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Gwinn (1994) observations
theory
TURBULENCE MacLow et al.(1994)
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class I masers at 25 GHz in ОМС-1
(Johnston et al. 1995)
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Watson
class I masers at 25 GHz in ОМС-1
(Sobolev,Wallin & Watson 1998)
small τ0
Ori-KL
images
Velocity correlations
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class I masers at 25 GHz in ОМС-1 (model by Sobolev, Watson & Okorokov 2003)
evolution of turbulent velocity field leads to maser spot evolution: change in brightness, position and velocity, as well as merging and division of spots
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class I masers at 25 GHz in ОМС-1 (model by Sobolev, Watson & Okorokov 2003)
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Masers tracing outflows: variability is caused by the turbulence and shock wave propagation
Voronkov, Brooks, Sobolev et al. (2006)
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«hot» spots with sizes ~ 0.001 arcsec (Menten et al.1991), surrounded by «halo» with size ~ arcsec (Sobolev et al. 2005, Harvey-Smith & Cohen 2006)
HII region edges
6.7 GHz methanol maser images in
W3(OH): slow variations in
intensity and position
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(Sutton, Sobolev, Salii, Malyshev, Ostrovskii, Zinchenko 2004)
class I methanol masers are tracing star forming clumps at the edges of outflows:
slow variations in intensity and position (Strelnitskij 1982), (Sobolev & Strelnitskij 1983)
Strelnitskij Sutton
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3.6 µ
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Periodic, flares G9.62+0.20 maser flares (Goedhart et al. 2003) G9.62+0.20 interferometry: a time delay of one to two weeks was observed between groups of maser features. These delays can be explained by the light travel time between maser groups (Goedhart et al. 2005)
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Periodic, flares G9.62+0.20 maser flares (Goedhart et al. 2003) G9.62+0.20 interferometry: a time delay of one to two weeks was observed between groups of maser features. These delays can be explained by the light travel time between maser groups (Goedhart et al. 2005)
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500 a.u.
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G9.62+0.20 monitoring: periodic variability is observed at 6, 12 and 107 GHz. The 12 GHz masers are the most variable with relative amplitude having a value of 2.4 (van der Walt et al. 2009)
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Different classes of Methanol Masers display strong emission in different transitions:
class I – at 25 GHz, 44 GHz, 36 GHz, etc. class II – at 6 GHz, 12 GHz, 157 GHz, etc.
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Cragg
Salii
class II masers: (see Sobolev etal. 2001, Cragg etal 2005)
Caswell Henkel
6, 12, 107, 156, 23, 19, 37, 38, 86, 93, etc. GHz
Ostrovskii
Ellingsen
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model with n=106 cm-3 Tdust=Tgas
br ightness
Among physical parameters only the dust temperature
can react sufficiently fast to the changes of the radiation from the distant object.
Models show that the changes in the dust temperature by a few %
can explain G9.62+020 variability
model with n=105 cm-3 Tdust=Tgas
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Beuther et al. Protostars and Planets V
Whitworth et al. SPH modelling
Okamoto et al. (2009) Subaru observations of HD200775
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T Tau binary systems with elliptical orbits
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maser
Map of the outflow origin 1.3 mm color image with overlaid CH3CN line contours. Inserts (0.6”x0.6”) show 7 mm cont. emission
(Zapata et al. 2007)
Sobolev, Voronkov, Green et al. (in prep.)
Ori-S 6 GHz methanol maser
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There are 2 classes of Methanol Masers: class I normally trace the shocks
class II are normally close to YSOs
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class I (class I/II) class II
Tdust = Tgas
log Tb
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G331.13-0.24 monitoring Methanol masers at 6 and 9 GHz
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(= V645 Cyg)
V645 Cyg shows irregular variations of the optical brightness
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Optical monitoring at AO UrFU
6 GHz maser monitoring at Torun
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6 GHz maser monitoring at Torun
Optical monitoring at AO UrFU
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6 GHz maser monitoring at Torun
Optical monitoring at AO UrFU
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6 GHz maser monitoring at Torun
Optical monitoring at AO UrFU
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Brightness variations of components of the V645 Cyg 6 GHz methanol maser show correlation with the brightness variations of the V645 Cyg star in the optical range (filters V and R). There is possible time lag of the optical brightness in comparison to the maser variations. It can be explained that in the course of rotation of accreting material (debris) the light points toward the maser position earlier than toward the observer.
maser
observer rotating debris
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Variability of H2O maser in V0645 Cyg (19-29.05.2009) Red rectangles show features with pronounced variability The strongest feature at -43.8 km/s experienced dramatic change between May 26 and 27. At this moment the source was not monitored.
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V645 Cyg H2O maser normally shows slow variations in intensity (~2 times a month) Characteristic times of maser relative stability are about 2 months. There is some similarity between variability pattern of the star and associated H2O maser but it is difficult to suggest numerical measure of this similarity. Nothing regular.
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𝑑𝐼(𝑠, 𝜈�) 𝑑𝜏
=𝐼(𝑠, 𝜈�) + 𝐴
Γ exp −𝜈�2
1 + 𝐴Γ + 𝐼(𝑠, 𝜈�)
+ 𝜂exp −𝜈�2
Flare of saturated maser two-level uniform linear maser in steady-state
distant and small background continuum source Following (Watson & Wyld 2003) and taking into account spontaneous emission we obtain following radiative transfer equation :
𝐼 =𝑐2𝐴𝐼ℎ𝜈03Γ
, �̃� =𝑐𝑣𝐷
𝜈 − 𝜈0𝜈0
, 𝑑𝜏 =𝑐3𝑣𝐷2𝐴𝜆− 0
8𝜈03Γ𝑑𝑠, 𝜂 =
𝐴Γ𝜆+(0)𝜆−(0)
, 𝐼 0, �̃� = 𝐼0,
where vD - thermal breadth; λ+(0) and λ –(0) are sum and difference of pumping rates of upper and lower levels; ds – differential path length within the maser; I0 –intensity of background continuum source radiation; Γ – loss rate from states due to all processes other than the maser transition. The saturation degree R/ Γ is measured as I(L,0)/2 where L – the maser length.
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Fixed parameters of the model: • vD = 0.5 km/s • λ-(0) = 0.009 cm-3 s-1
(consistent with the range of λ-(0) in Anderson & Watson, 1993) • λ+(0) = 0.09 cm-3 s-1
(λ+(0) / λ-(0) = 10÷100 in Watson & Wyld, 2003)
Varied parameters of the model: • Background I0 • Pump rate Γ (range of values from Anderson & Watson 1993) • Path Length of the maser
With Tbg=10 K, Γ=1 s-1 , and L= 1013 cm this model has Tb = 6.6 106 K and ∆v/∆vD= 0.28
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Possible increase of brightness is LESS than 2 orders of magnitude
CHANGE OF BACKGROUND
Possible rebroadening is LESS than 2 times
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CHANGE OF PUMP RATE
Possible increase of brightness is MORE than 2 orders of magnitude
Possible rebroadening
is MORE than 3 times
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CHANGE OF PATH LENGTH
Possible increase of brightness
is MORE than 3 orders of magnitude
Possible rebroadening
is MORE than 3 times
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There is also variability which is not related to the maser itself but appears due to changes of the maser emission on the way to observer. It is well pronounced for extragalactic sources. This phenomenon is known as scintillation. In the case of Circinus water megamaser the rapid variability is a result of quenched diffractive scintillation while the long time-scale variability is due refractive scintillation (McCallum et al., 2009).
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RadioAstron project http://www.asc.rssi.ru/radioastron/index.html
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W3 IRS5 H2O maser, 40 microarcsec resolution
Data on distant pulsar requires correction of the scattering theory
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